An activist and poet, Marie Annharte Baker celebrates and critiques the lives of today's urban Native people. These powerful and articulate poems are humorous and fierce-a testament to survival.

Being on the Moon

Literature & Fiction

Baker, Marie Annharte

Poetry

Raincoast Books, Polestar

Winner of the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, Kate Braid tracks the journey of a woman who wants, innocently enough, to build things. She explores the joy of physical labor and the struggle to be a tradeswoman in a "man's world."

Covering Rough Ground

Braid, Kate

Alaska Highway Two-Step: A Travel-Mystery Novel

Woodward, Caroline

Travel

In The Gathering, Gregory Scofield applies the sacred teachings of the Medicine Wheel to the harsh reality of life on the skids. Using poetry as a healing metaphor, he embarks on a personal journey that parallels the historic and contemporary displacement of the Métis people. With anger, humor, and powerful language, The Gathering offers rare insight into the world of Canada's Métis, creating a bridge between Native and non-Native worlds.

The Gathering

Scofield, Gregory

These stories describe independent women whose painful experiences are forged into inspiring strength. "Roberts deftly evokes the contradictory erotic currents of growing up female." -Betsy Warlord

The Last Chance Café

Roberts, Anita

Literary

A team of North American climbers replicates an historic trek around Mount Kangchenjunga, third highest mountain in the world, made in 1899 by British adventurer Douglas Freshfield and Italian mountain photographer Vittorio Sella. Illustrated with stunning color photography and complemented by some of Sella's exquisite black and white photographs, this rich narrative shows how much- and how little- has changed in the nations of Tibet, Nepal, and Sikkim in the intervening 100 years.

Footsteps in the Clouds

Science & Math

Morrow, Pat

Morrow, Baiba

Nature & Ecology

This powerful novel about a woman's self-discovery reinforces Lee Maracle's stature as one of the most important First Nations writers in North America. The novel incorporates an innovative structure - one based on Salish Nation storytelling - to depict the transformation of Marilyn, a First Nations woman who is alienated from her culture, her family, and herself. By discovering her own culture's ways and listening to the natural world, Marilyn begins to heal her deep-rooted hurt and gradually become reconciled with her estranged daughters. Here is a moving work about First Nations people in the modern world, and the importance of courage, truth, and reconciliation.

Daughters Are Forever

Maracle, Lee

This incandescent book subscribes to the adage that "Good poems should rage like a fire, burning all things." Blue is black, profane, surly, damning - and unrelenting in its brilliance. Clarke writes: "I craved to draft lyrics that would pour out like Pentecostal fire - pell mell, scorching, bright, loud: a poetics of arson." Blue is divided into five parts that skillfully turn rage into a violet bruise of love and mourning. From the "Nasty Nofaskoshan Negro" of the Black section to the shocking satires of the red section, from the fierce tenderness of Gold Sapphics to the haunting lament of Blue Elegies, Clarke has written urgent and necessary poems - poems that burn and illuminate with their fury, truth, and beauty.

Blue

Clarke, George Elliott

Celebrated novelist Shani Mootoo, author of the award-winning Cereus Blooms at Night, turns her hand to poetry in a nuanced and lively exploration of desire, identity and personal exile. In haunting and astonishing language, shot through with the speech and rhythms of her native Trinidad, Mootoo walks a breathtaking tightrope - between cultures and identities, between geographical locations, between memory and desire. In a series of bittersweet love poems, she tenderly exposes the contradictions in loving another woman; in a series of exhilarating riffs on language and the effects of colonization, she marries English words to Trinidadian intonation. Here are poems equally lush and philosophical, sensual and startling, spilling forth meaning from experience like blood-red seeds from a pomegranate.

The Predicament of Or

Mootoo, Shani

Mars Eclipsed: A Katy Klein Mystery

Irving, Karen

Contemporary

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